Kate Evans
{{Short description|British cartoonist, non-fiction author and graphic novelist}}
{{for|the Welsh suffragette and activist|Kate Williams Evans}}
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Kate Evans (born 1972){{cite web|access-date=2022-05-06|title=Bump : how to make, grow and birth a baby / Kate Evans.|url=https://wellcomecollection.org/works/ks6tw6w5|website=Wellcome Collection}} is a British cartoonist, non-fiction author and graphic novelist.
Biography
Kate Evans was born in Montreal, Canada, and raised in Surrey, England. She studied English literature at the University of Sussex in Brighton where she became involved in political opposition to the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994. Here she became associated with the SchNEWS DIY activist publication, editing and contributing artwork to several of its annual editions.{{cite web|url=http://nowthenmagazine.com/sheffield/issue-41/schnews/|title=schnews|website=nowthenmagazine.com|access-date=2 August 2017}} From 1995 to 1998 Evans dedicated herself to environmental activism, providing cartoon reportage from a tree house on the route of the Newbury Bypass for The Guardian newspaper. In 1998, Evans wrote, illustrated and published her account as Copse: the Cartoon Book of Tree Protesting.{{cite web|access-date=2022-05-06|title=Squall Magazine - Necessity breeds ingenuity!|url=http://squallmagazine.com/|website=Squall Magazine}}{{cite web|access-date=2022-05-06|title=Reviews|url=https://newint.org/features/1998/11/05/reviews|date=5 November 1998|website=New Internationalist}}
Since 2000, Evans has produced a series of non-fiction graphic works on a variety of social and political topics. The Food of Love: your formula for successful breastfeeding has popularised attachment parenting techniques.{{cite news|first1=Kate|last1=Evans|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/jul/05/breastfeeding-benefits-child-rearing|title=The case for breastfeeding is clear|date=5 July 2010|access-date=2 August 2017|newspaper=The Guardian}} Evans subsequently authored and illustrated the pregnancy and birth manual Bump: how to make, grow and birth a baby.{{cite web|access-date=2022-05-06|title=Bump: How to Make, Grow and Birth a Baby|url=https://thenaturalparentmagazine.com/bump-make-grow-birth-baby/|date=19 January 2017|website=The Natural Parent Magazine}}
Red Rosa: a graphic biography of Rosa Luxemburg,{{cite web|url=https://www.thenation.com/article/the-radical-life-of-rosa-luxemburg/|title=The Radical Life of Rosa Luxemburg|website=The Nation|access-date=2 August 2017|archive-date=20 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171020015854/https://www.thenation.com/article/the-radical-life-of-rosa-luxemburg/|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=http://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/blog/2016/3/red-rosa-a-verso-podcast-in-collaboration-with-the-london-review-bookshop|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306044148/http://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/blog/2016/3/red-rosa-a-verso-podcast-in-collaboration-with-the-london-review-bookshop|url-status=dead|archive-date=6 March 2016|title=Red Rosa: a Verso podcast in collaboration with the London Review Bookshop |website=Londonreviewbookshop.co.uk|access-date=2 August 2017}} an account of the life and work of revolutionary socialist Rosa Luxemburg was shortlisted for the Bread and Roses Award 2016.{{cn|date=May 2022}}
Evans returned to comics journalism with the book Threads from the Refugee Crisis, reportage from the Calais Jungle.{{cite web|access-date=2022-05-06|title=Cartoonist Kate Evans draws on experiences as a refugee camp volunteer for graphic novel|url=https://vancouversun.com/entertainment/local-arts/cartoonist-draws-on-experiences-as-a-refugee-camp-volunteer-for-graphic-novel-threads|website=Vancouver Sun}} Threads from the Refugee Crisis was awarded the John C. Laurence Award from the Society of Authors in 2016 and won the Broken Frontier Award for Graphic Non Fiction 2017. In 2018 it became the first graphic novel to be nominated for the Orwell Prize for Books.{{citation needed|date=April 2018}}
Evans lives in Somerset, UK, with her spouse and two children.{{cn|date=May 2022}}
Publications
- Copse: the Cartoon Book of Tree Protesting. Self-published, 1998. {{ISBN|978-0953267408}}. With photographs by Adrian Arbib, Gideon Mendel, and Andrew Testa.{{cite web|access-date=2022-05-06|title=Paul Kingsnorth's top 10 dissenting books|url=http://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/apr/29/bestbooks.politics|date=28 April 2003|website=The Guardian}}
- Funny Weather: Everything you Didn't Want to Know About Climate Change but Probably Should Find Out. Brighton: Myriad, 2006. {{ISBN|978-0-954930-93-6}}. With an introduction by George Monbiot.
- Weird Weather. Groundwood, 2007. Canada and USA edition. {{ISBN|978-0888998385}}. With an introduction by Monbiot.
- Il clima furioso. Tutto quello che dovete sapere sui cambiamenti climatici. Italy: LIT - Libri in Tasca, 2013. {{ISBN|978-8865831366}}.
- The Food of Love: your formula for successful breastfeeding. Brighton: Myriad, 2009. {{ISBN|978-0954930950}}.
- Bump: how to make, grow and birth a baby. Brighton: Myriad, 2014. {{ISBN|978-1-908434-35-7}}.{{cite web|first1=Cassie|last1=Werber|access-date=2022-05-06|title=The only baby book I'm reading while pregnant is this blissfully simple cartoon|url=https://qz.com/1009441/the-only-baby-book-im-reading-while-pregnant-is-this-blissfully-relaxing-cartoon-by-kate-evans/|website=Quartz (publication)}}
- Red Rosa: a Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg. Verso, 2015. {{ISBN|9781784780999}}.
- Threads from the Refugee Crisis. Verso, 2017. {{ISBN|9781786631732}}.
- Don't Call Me Princess!. New Internationalist, 2018. {{ISBN|9781780264653}}.{{cite web|access-date=2022-05-06|title=I ain't your princess|url=https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/don%27t-call-me-princess|date=27 December 2018|website=Morning Star (British newspaper)}}
References
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External links
- {{Official website|cartoonkate.co.uk}}
- [https://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2017/jun/20/threads-a-refugees-story-in-words-and-pictures-world-refugee-day-extract An excerpt from Threads] at The Guardian
- [https://www.vice.com/en/article/pg7n3z/cartoonist-kate-evans-on-red-rosa "Kate Evans on Doomed Revolutionary and Political Dynamo 'Red' Rosa"] at Vice
- [https://archive.org/details/KateEvansFINALWithMusic_201511 "Mitchel Cohen interviews artist Kate Evans, author of the pictoral biography of Rosa Luxemburg, 'Red Rosa', published by Verso."]
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Category:Artists from Montreal
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Category:20th-century British women artists
Category:20th-century British women writers